Inside ENISA’s National Cybersecurity Strategies (NCSS) Interactive Map
Cybersecurity has become an essential component of national resilience, with each EU Member State developing its own National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCSS) to guide policy, capacity building, and operational coordination. To bring greater transparency and alignment to these efforts, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has released the NCSS Interactive Map, a new digital hub that provides a comprehensive overview of how countries across Europe are translating cybersecurity policy into action.
A central information hub for Europe’s cybersecurity strategies
The ENISA NCSS Interactive Map consolidates information from 31 countries, covering 421 organisations, 20 strategic objectives, and 97 strategy-related documents. It highlights each Member State’s approach to cybersecurity strategy implementation — from governance structures and capacity-building initiatives to cooperation mechanisms and public–private partnerships.
Through this tool, ENISA aims to foster knowledge sharing, transparency, and coherence across the Union’s cybersecurity landscape, helping policymakers, researchers, and practitioners better understand how national frameworks evolve in line with EU legislation such as the NIS2 Directive and the EU Cybersecurity Strategy.
Each country’s profile within the Map includes key details about its NCSS: publication and update dates, main strategic objectives, and implementation measures. Users can explore how national priorities differ or converge across Member States, identifying shared goals such as strengthening incident response, building digital skills, enhancing the protection of critical infrastructure, or improving cross-border cooperation.
Supporting national implementation and maturity assessment
Since the early 2010s, ENISA has supported Member States in developing and implementing their National Cybersecurity Strategies through practical methodologies, good practice guides, and policy templates. This ongoing support has ensured that all EU Member States have adopted at least one NCSS since 2017, many of which have since been updated to reflect new threats and evolving EU frameworks.
The National Capabilities Assessment Framework (NCAF), introduced in 2020, enables countries to evaluate their cybersecurity maturity across four clusters — governance and standards, capacity building and awareness, legal and regulatory aspects, and cooperation. The NCSS Interactive Map complements this framework by serving as a live repository of strategies and actions, allowing stakeholders to monitor progress at both strategic and operational levels.
Highlighting good practices and public–private collaboration
The NCSS Interactive Map also presents examples of good practices and implementation measures from across the EU — from improving incident reporting and cyber crisis management to strengthening cooperation among national authorities and CSIRTs.
A recurring feature of national strategies is the emphasis on public–private partnerships (PPPs), reflecting the shared responsibility for Europe’s critical information infrastructure. ENISA has long promoted cooperative models for such partnerships, publishing guidance such as the Good Practice Guide on Cooperative Models for Effective PPPs and the Study on Cooperative Models for Public–Private Partnerships (2017). These resources identify frameworks for collaboration, challenges in sustaining PPPs, and ways to build trust between public authorities and private actors.
The Interactive Map extends this work by illustrating how Member States embed PPPs within their national strategies, reinforcing Europe’s collective effort to build a secure, resilient, and collaborative digital environment.
By bringing together national strategies in one accessible platform, ENISA’s NCSS Interactive Map helps policymakers, researchers, and cybersecurity professionals follow national progress, compare approaches, and learn from good practices across Europe. As the EU advances its collective resilience under frameworks like NIS2, the Map provides a clear picture of how cooperation and shared priorities are shaping Europe’s digital security.